| Hint | Answer | % Correct |
|---|---|---|
| C – Superman’s and Dracula’s garment | Cape | 95%
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| D – something that the __________ People's Republic of Korea is not, despite its official name | Democratic | 93%
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| J – “Hey ____, don't make it bad; Take a sad song and make it better” | Jude | 90%
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| T – Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s ____ | Tale | 88%
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| H – first name of Keller, the first deafblind person to earn a Bachelor of Arts degree | Helen | 86%
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| Z – the only African country where U.S. dollar is the official currency | Zimbabwe | 82%
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| B – singer whose hit “Space Oddity” was inspired by 2001: A Space Odyssey character David Bowman | David Bowie | 81%
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| F – Street _______, the highest-grossing fighting game media franchise of all time | Fighter | 81%
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| G – Gillian Flynn’s runaway bestseller ____ Girl | Gone | 80%
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| A – the first male human in Norse mythology, or to enquire | Ask | 75%
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| E – to compel a player to leave the field, or a button on a VCR | Eject | 73%
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| K – an educational institution, or where Arnold Schwarzenegger was a cop | Kindergarten | 72%
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| I – a dialogue between Socrates and ___, or lithium-___ battery | Ion | 71%
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| S – Tom who skipped school to go swimming, after which his aunt made him whitewash her fence | Sawyer | 71%
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| V – certain religious practices in Haiti, or Jimi Hendrix’s “______ Child (Slight Return)” | Voodoo | 71%
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| R – painted The Night Watch | Rembrandt | 66%
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| O – the amount of prevention that is worth a pound of cure | an Ounce | 58%
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| U – a public land-grant research university in Los Angeles; the second-oldest university in California after UC Berkeley | UCLA | 55%
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| Y – helpful green dinosaur who first appeared in Super Mario World | Yoshi | 52%
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| N – the only country in the world that has exactly one island | Nauru | 48%
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| P – a long and slender piece of wood, an almost unique place on Earth, or someone from Lodz | Pole | 46%
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| W – the Dutch used thousands of these in the 1800s to power the reclaiming of land from the sea | Windmill | 43%
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| L – follows slum, precedes ship | Lord | 42%
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| Q – Chinese basketball player Zhou __ | Qi | 42%
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| M – board game where players cooperate to build a _____ ____ in the style of a Rube Goldberg machine and then try to trap opponents' game pieces | Mouse Trap | 36%
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| X – xenophobic in Spanish | Xenófobo | 8%
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